Self-Improvement Wednesday: Military culture in the works of Shakespeare

24/04/2013 , 10:25 AM by Christine Gallagher

Your lesson this week: Shakespeare's soldiers.

Your teacher is Dr Huw Griffiths from the Department of English at the University of Sydney

Elizabethan England was deeply militarised and this is reflected in the works of William Shakespeare, from his history plays to his lightest comedies. But far from the image of glamorous Elizabethan chivalry, Shakespeare depicts a darker side to military values and the life of a soldier.